Hey folks, Harry here with a story that Michael Fleming over at Variety broke. Apparently - De Palma... being a huge fan of AICN's Capone, has decided to make a prequel film to focus exclusively on his early movie reviewin... oh... wait, it's a prequel to THE UNTOUCHABLES called THE UNTOUCHABLES: CAPONE RISING - terrible title. I'm dying to see Brian's THE BLACK DAHLIA... and as for this... who the hell do you have play the young versions of Deniro's Capone and Connery's Johnny Malone. I guess for Connery - you'd pretty much have to go for Clive Owens - but would he want to take over the part that Sean won an Academy Award for? As for young Deniro... I don't think we have one of those today. Hope to god the script to this is amazing.
Brian De Palma has returned to the scene of the crime for "The Untouchables: Capone Rising," a Paramount Pictures prequel to his 1987 hit film about lawman Eliot Ness's takedown of Al Capone.
De Palma has joined forces with "Untouchables" producer Art Linson, with whom he recently worked on "The Black Dahlia," which was just acquired by Universal Pictures.
Linson got the prequel going at Par, drafting "Rounders" scribes Brian Koppelman and David Levien to write a film that centers on young Al Capone's arrival in Chicago and his rise to criminal kingpin status. The drama charts his collision course with Irish cop Johnny Malone, the character played in the original pic by Sean Connery. Antoine Fuqua was originally attached to direct.
